<div>On 7/16/07, Tim <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 09:24 +0600, Mustafa Qasim wrote: > for gpg --send-keys E35924AA --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net it says > gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver) ...... [I am > already using the --keyserver option ..] Most peculiar. Try rearranging the order on the command line (put the key ID last). I just tried the opposite (to sending), fetching that key. Obviously it'll fail to get *that* key, because it's not on the server, but I expect a gpg error message that makes sense. This failed stupidly for me: [tim@gonzales ~]$ gpg --recv-keys E35924AA --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net gpg: "--keyserver" not a key ID: skipping gpg: "hkp://subkeys.pgp.net" not a key ID: skipping gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver) gpg: keyserver receive failed: bad URI It didn't use the keyserver address as server address, but as the key to retreive. This failed sensibly for me: [tim@gonzales ~]$ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys E35924AA gpg: requesting key E35924AA from hkp server <a href="http://subkeys.pgp.net">subkeys.pgp.net </a> gpgkeys: key E35924AA not found on keyserver gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: Total number processed: 0 It connected, but there wasn't *that* key on their server. If that key was there, it would have worked. Have a go at retreiving a key from the server, to see if that side of things works. > m not using LDAP so it none of my business You don't have to be, *they're* offering it as a communication protocol to use the keyserver. Give it a try. > for mailto command it gaives the same error > gpg: no keyserver known (use option --keyserver) I think you might have to send us a copy of your gpg.conf file, but remove anything private FIRST (also leave a comment so we can see where you've done that). -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> in answer to recieve it says --rec-keys is an invalid option... wait a minute....Do i need to update the gpg package on my system. it's kind of older version of Ubunto right now at this system from where i m trying to send my key... what is the latest package for gpg command... and what do u mean by removing private info from gpg.conf...... what part is considered as private for teh key holder? -- Mustafa Qasim Lahore, Pakistan Cell: 0321-6614972 URL: <a href="http://www.mustu.info"> http://www.mustu.info</a>